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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

What means a colon near the comment?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

You mean a word between : ? If so, it's may be an emoticon.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

A colon can mean a number of things, depending on what the author was trying to do when he wrote it.

In English grammar, a colon can be used to set off or focus on the words that follow. As an example: this phrase has been set off by the colon ahead of it. Also as @leocg notes, the colon may be an attempt to create an emoticon which in many forums will display as a small inline image symbol in a text string. For example: a colon combined with a parenthesis with no space between will produces a or symbol here. In certain coding languages, a colon may act as a 'control' symbol to cause a certain action or function as a certain kind of demarking or definition symbol.

Do you have a specific example of how the colon is being used?